Sunday, October 07, 2007

i joined college in 1991.at the convocation that year, the usual awardees like the president's gold medallist (same for each iit) and governor's gold medallist where eating humble pie to my subject.raju topped the IAS that year. an unheard of occurrence in the annals of iit madras.he was the toast all along the place.

obviously, the euphoria and the memory faded rapidly.till i saw this article in tehelka.

obviously raju was thriving and swimming strong against the sewage.and in the meanwhile, we heard a lot of the famous munnar demolition drive initiated by kerala cm - achuthanandan. almost ruthlessly, illegal encroachments were being razed to ground.and guess who was one of the lead men - correct - rns was the collector of the district.no one was spared - tatas, CPI, CPI(M) were all deemed to be illegal squatters and rapid action was underway, when money power spannered everything.